This chapter was originally published in two parts, But I decided to combine it into just one, longer than normal chapter. Enjoy.
It was late October. It had been ten days since the dance. Jim was the only one who had gone, he had tried to convince his roommates to go, he even told them he would find them dates, it was the first thing he hadn't been able to convince them to do.
"Hey Spock." Said Jim, "Guess what Friday is."
"I do not need to guess, I know. Today is the 27th of October, so Friday is the 31st."
Kirk rolled his eyes, "Not what I meant Spock, I meant Halloween!"
"What is Halloween?" asked Spock.
"Did the Hobgoblin just ask what I thought he did?" asked Bones, walking in, "It's the 27th and you still don't know what Halloween is? That's just sad."he shook his head.
"Spock, Halloween is a holiday. In the U.S.A and some other places for centuries now kids have dressed up in costumes and go out around their neighborhoods and knock on people's doors and say 'Trick-or-treat!' and they give them candy. And then most kids try to eat it all in one night" explained Kirk to his alien friend.
"Yeah, and when you're older and don't trick-or-treat anymore, it's always great to play pranks on neighbors, you ever do that Jim?" said Leonard.
"Oh yeah, lots. And one year we were at my cousins on Halloween and we did some together. But we got caught."
"What were you doing?"
"Wel,l my brother, cousin, and I were someone's house. With double-stick tape." said Jim, "It would have been awesome if hadn't been forced to clean it up since we got caught."
"So Halloween is celebrated first as a child by ingesting unhealthy amounts of sugar and fat, and later by becoming a vandal?
"Fine, be a pessimist about it." said Bones, "People also throw parties, mostly costume parties."
"We should throw a party!" said Jim, he began thinking about how to do it.
"We can't throw a party." said Bones, "Where would we have it?"
"Now you're being a pessimist, Bones." said Jim, "It'd be easy, I'll round up some classmates, and we'll rent the room they have at some bars in town for stuff like this! Of course, you'll have to pitch in."
"And why would I blow my credits on this?" asked Bones. Jim rolled his eyes, his roommates could be absolutely clueless sometimes.
"Because it would be fun!" he leaned in, "Come one Bones, Pleeeeeeeease?"
Bones sighed, "I'm probably going to regret this Saturday morning, but fine."
"What about you Spock?"
"I see no logical reason to." he said simply, and went back to the book he had been reading earlier. Some boring psychology book on human habits, that gave Jim and idea
"Come on Spock! Think of it as research on the human race and our social habits, a Vulcan's view on what we do for fun would make a great social studies, or psychology extra credit report. It would be much more effective, logical than reading a book on us, like you are now." Kirk could tell that he'd played that right, Spock would do it if it he had a logical reason to, and if it could raise his already highly above normal grade average.
"Alright."
"Great! Okay, we'll need to find somewhere to rent a room to throw a party, pay for it, invites, get food, music, costumes-"
"Costumes!" said Bones, sounding a little horrified, "No way, I take back what I said about helping, I am not dressing up and making a fool of myself."
"But it's a Halloween party Bones! There's got to be costumes, and it's not like I'm making you wear something in particular, you can wear any costume you want to. Same for you Spock."
"What is the logic behind wearing costumes?" asked Spock.
"We're not all vulcans Spock! Not everything has to have a logical reason!" Kirk took a breath then spoke again, "So are you guys gonna help me or not. 'Cause either way I'm doing this."
"Like I said before, I'm gonna regret this, but I'm in." said Bones.
"I will assist you James." said Spock.
"You guy are the best! Now, like I said before, we need to find a place to rent a room Friday evening, make a guest list..." Kirk smiled as he kept talking, this was going to be great, he couldn't wait for Friday.
Spock looked around, he was at the Halloween party Jim had arranged, pressed against a wall watching.
There were a lot of students there, all in costumes.
An African girl talking to Kirk (who was dressed as a prince) was wearing a knee silvery-pink dress, and had a pair of fake wings, and glittery hair.
One student was talking to Leonard, (dressed as a doctor from the mid-20th century) who was wearing a strange hat with goggles on it, a brown jacket-possibly leather, hopefully fake leather- and a red scarf. He recognized him from engineering classes, his name was Montgomery Scott. Both Montgomery and Leonard had beverages that might have been alcoholic.
"It vas not!" Spock picked up someone saying over the loud music. Over near the table of food, two young men were standing,arguing. One was wearing a costume made to look like a strange yellow creature, with jagged ears and brown stripes. The other was wearing a black bodysuit, with a face mask, and a sword hanging from a belt. A type of Middle ages Japanese warrior. A ninja.
"Yes, Pokemon did come from Japan, give it up Chekov." said the ninja.
"Fine! Believe zat all you vant Sulu, but you're vrong." said Chekov. He looked up and noticed Spock.
"Hey, nice costume." said Sulu. Spock looked at his costume, he had been planing on not wearing a costume, until his roommates had found out two days earlier.
"Isn't though?" said Jim, who had walked over, "Bones and I practically had to drag the Hobgoblin here to a costume store to get it."
"Hobgoblin?" asked Chekov. Spock found that he actually felt like glaring at Kirk.
I'm in control of my emotions
"Yeah, that's What McCoy and I call him."
"But why?" asked Sulu
"I don't know, Bones called Spock that first."
"Oh you're Spock!" Sulu. "How did I not pick that up? Guess because I can't see your ears." Spock's costume had a bandana
"Hmmmm, didn't think about that. Okay, bandana is gone" Kirk pulled the bandana off of Spock's head.
"Hey Jim!" called someone.
"Oh! That's Brianna, I said I'd dance with her! See you!" Jim ran off.
Spock also excused himself and walked over to the food.
Most everything on the table was sweet. He hardly ever ate sugary food. He wasn't even sure what most of the things on the table were.
"Here, try this." he looked and saw a girl with blond hair, blue eyes and light skin standing next to him. Her costume was a cream colored, slightly glittery floor length dress with a blue sash. She also had a thin sliver band around her head. He also happened to notice through her hair (which had been left down) were pointed ears, most likely fake.
"What is it?" asked Spock.
"They're brownies, they're really good." she said, smiling. He decided to take one.
"What is your name?" he inquired
"Christine Chapel, I know yours is Spock."
"What is your costume supposed to be?"
"Oh, I'm an elven queen. Are you going to eat hat, or just hold it?" asked Christine, meaning the brownie. Spock took an extremely small bit of it
"Don't eat that!" yelled McCoy, who had worked his way over to the table. Spock took it out of his mouth.
"Why Leonard?"
"Because it's basically entirely chocolate." Spock noticed a very slight slur to his roommate's voice. He concluded that the drink he had had was alcohol, and either strong, or not the only one.
"What's so bad about chocolate?" asked Christine
"I react to chocolate, the same way humans do to certain amounts of alcohol, to put it simply, I get drunk."
"Oh! I'm sorry!' said Christine, she took the brownie away and tossed it in the trash.
"You had no fault in the matter as you didn't know."
"Well okay then." she said.
"How the report coming for Dr. Halon's Christine?" asked Leonard.
"Okay I guess, he must have given me the toughest one in the whole class though!"
"Nope, I got the toughest assignment, hands down."
"Spock." said Jim, who had come up behind him, "Ask her to dance." there had been dancing, mostly to quick paced songs, although some songs had very illogical lyrics, he noticed many people laughed when they heard them come on.
"Why?"
"For fun, if not for you, for her. I'll bet she'd enjoy it, every time I've noticed her tonight she's been standing against a wall until now."
"I do not plan to ask her to dance."
"Hey, just a friendly suggestion."Jim walked away.
The song played for a few more minutes. Spock felt a little dizzy, It passed, he wondered why.
It doesn't matter.
Spock remembered what Jim had said. He decided to ask her to dance.
This is an illogical decision, I have no need to dance, I'm only here because Jim made me come. And I don't how to dance. Be quiet, I to, that's enough.
Had he just told himself to be quiet?
"Christine?" she spun around and looked at Spock
"Would you like to dance?"
She smiled big, "I would love to Spock."
He led her out to the dance floor. The song changed to slow music. She took one his hands.
He thought about pulling away. He didn't
"Spock." Christine said halfway through the song.
"Yes?"
"Look at me, not the floor." She said. He looked at her. Her decided she was beautiful.
That is illogical, decisions on beauty, especially in cases like this are based on emo- who cares?
They kept dancing.
"Jim, somethings wrong with Spock." said Leonard
"What?"
"Well look at him! He's dancing, with Christine Chapel, and he's enjoying it."
Jim looked, Bones was right
"Did he eat any of that brownie?"
"Well it was in his mouth,he might have had a small bite, or maybe just have gotten some frosting on his teeth, that could have been enough to get him like this without making him overly weird."
"What if he gets worse?"
"Then we have to deal with a nutty Vulcan."
Uhura and Scotty came and stood by Jim and Bones
"Hey Jim, Wanna dance?"asked Uhura. The girl Kirk had danced with earlier had already left, and one dance couldn't hurt.
"Sure."
"Jim! We need to deal with this!" whisper-hissed Bones. Jim had already started to walk away.
"Deal with waht?" asked Uhura
"Oh, nothing important."
"I need another drink." Groaned Bones.
"Come on, we can both get something, because now I'm confused." said Scotty, they both walked off.
"What time is it?" asked Christine. She and Spock had danced for awhile, then sat down in some chairs on the edge of the room and talked.
"About midnight." said Spock.
"Oh gosh! I have class in the morning and I meant to leave before this!" she stood up.
"Please, let me walk you back to the dorm." said Spock
she is a grown women and- Spock cut off his thought process, he simply didn't care in the slightest about the logic of things anymore.
They left and walked back to the academy. Somewhere along the route she slipped her hand into his, He should have pulled away, she shouldn't be touching his hand, he
held her hand.
They got back to the dorm.
"Thanks for walking me back, and for the lovely evening." said Christine, she smiled, just like she had all night, Spock liked her smile.
"The pleasure was mine." said Spock, she was beautiful, he could help help himself, or rather couldn't stop himself.
He kissed her. Somewhere, something in his mind told him not to, but he didn't care.
She seemed surprised, but ended up kissing him back.
Leonard watched, he had seen them leave and decide they'd go back to the academy, and left too.
I hope he remembers this in the morning, I would hate having to explain it to him. Hmm, I wonder how much chocolate it would take over the year to keep him like this all the time?